A

Supermarine Sirius F1

Started by andrewj, February 03, 2014, 08:54:11 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 2
User actions

The Rat

#15
February 03, 2014, 07:16:47 PM
Man, find me a junk yard of aircraft parts and I would try to build a real one, it's just too beautiful to not fly!  :bow: :thumbsup:
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Life is too short to worry about perfection

Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/46dpfdpr

jcf

#16
February 03, 2014, 08:18:22 PM
Nice, would look good all shiny, polished aluminum like the XP-38.



NARSES2

#17
February 04, 2014, 07:47:03 AM
Lovely model in a really nice scheme  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

pyro-manic

#18
February 04, 2014, 09:32:23 AM
When I read the thread title, the name "Sirius" led me to expect a '30s flying boat...

Very nicely done! A beautiful machine. :thumbsup:
Some of my models can be found on my Flickr album >>>HERE<<<

JayBee

#19
February 04, 2014, 09:33:14 AM
Superb bit of modelling. Both the idea and the execution.
:bow: :cheers: :wub: :thumbsup:

How about some build details. Although quite a lot are fairly easily fathomable.

Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

andrewj

#20
February 04, 2014, 10:55:11 AM
Thanks everyone , glad you like it .
The build was fairly straight foreward , starting point was a Monogram P-38, I removed the engines and radiators and reshaped the fins. I then added a pair of Spitfire Mk IX rudders and blended them in , removed the outer parts of the horizontal tail and filled and blended the gaps. Engines came from a Tamiya Mosquito again blended in with Milliput and 3 blade Mosquito props were converted to four bladers.
The center nacelle was built up with milliput to give a bulkier more rounded appearance and a Spitfire Bubble canopy added, outer wings were replaced with Spitfire 22 wings and the Mosquito type radiators were scratch built from card.
Sorry I didn't take any in-progress photos.

Andrew

Zero-Sen

#21
February 04, 2014, 04:29:33 PM
Really nice model, the idea isn't so different from that twin Tempest I saw on another forum thouth...
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2
User actions